diff --git a/ffserver.c b/ffserver.c
index 3559968458e467fbefcd45d916ddcdf6ed750f33..8f073fe3654306451aeef890eae6b2221ba2dc94 100644
--- a/ffserver.c
+++ b/ffserver.c
@@ -1589,10 +1589,10 @@ static int http_parse_request(HTTPContext *c)
}
if (c->post == 0 && max_bandwidth < current_bandwidth) {
- c->http_error = 200;
+ c->http_error = 503;
q = c->buffer;
q += snprintf(q, c->buffer_size,
- "HTTP/1.0 200 Server too busy\r\n"
+ "HTTP/1.0 503 Server too busy\r\n"
"Content-type: text/html\r\n"
"\r\n"
"<html><head><title>Too busy</title></head><body>\r\n"